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J. P. MULLER.

GLOVE FASTENING.

No. 251,272. Patented Dec. 20,1881.

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JOHAN P. MULLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

G LOVE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,272, dated December20, 1881.

Application filed November 1, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHAN P. MtSLLER, of the city, county, and StateofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Glove-Fastening; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being bad to the accompapyingdrawings, making part of this specificaion.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in glove-fasteningsand the invention consists in a fastening device for the wrists ofgloves, composed of a cord, passed through four or more eyelets affixedto the wrist of the glove, the ends of the cord being provided withknobs or balls having shoulders on the ends next adjacent the eyelets,whereby the wrist may be drawn together and held in the closed positionby the knobs,the shoulders of which jam the cord in one of the eyeletsand prevent the cord from rendering.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 representsa plan or topview of glove with my fastening and with wrist unclosed, and Fig. 2 thesame view with wrist drawn together by my fastening.

Similarletters of reference indicatelike parts in the two figures.

The purpose of this invention is to afford a ready means of closing thewrist part of gloves about the wrist of the wearer in a convenient-andpositive way. Buttons that are ordinarily employed for this purposefrequently break loose from the threads which confine them to the glove,and the inconveniencein buttoning the glove, together with the liabilityof the button-holes tearing out, renders this method of attachmentobjectionable; and metal springs have been employed for the purpose ofkeeping the openings of gloves together, but their weight and tendencyto cut through the glove make them undesirable, and the elastics, whichare sometimes used, soon yield to wear and become useless.

To produce a fastening that shall be better and more certain in itsworking than any of those above enumerated and now known, and whichshall be simple in its construction and positive in its action, I insertin the wrist A of a glove, B, on one side of the gore or open ing a, twoeyelets, O, placed closely together and horizontally in line with eachother, and

on the opposite side of the opening or gore a, are inserted two othereyelets, D, in like manner. Through the eyelets G is then passed a cord,E, so that the fold or bight shall be in one of these eyelets, the cordextending to and its ends passing through the eyelets D, as shown inFig. 1. To these ends of the cord are fixed, inany desirable manner,knobs F, with a square edge, 1)., formed thereon; or, if preferred,instead of knobs balls or irregular forms of metal with roughenedsurfaces may be employed.

Now, my fastening device, constructed substantially as above described,is operated by simply drawing upon one of the knobs F, which will causethe cord E to freely render through the eyelets O and D until theopening or gore a of the wrist is drawn together and closed about thewrist of the wearer, and when so drawn together the other of the knobs Fwill be in close contact with one of the eyelets, l), and, with itssquare edge b, it will jam the cord E tightly within the eyelet D, and,by the increased friction in this way produced, stop it from renderingwithin the eyelet, and thereby prevent the unclosing of the wrist-opening and holcLit firmly in the closed position until it is wished to againopen it for the purpose ofremoving the glove, to do which it is onlynecessary to draw upon the knob F, which has jammed the cord, as beforestated, when the cord will freely render through the eyelets.

The cord E should preferably be made with a somewhat roughened surface,to facilitate its binding or jamming by the knobs F in the eyelets D.

Gloves provided with this fastening device may be either lined orunlined, as may desired; but the device is particularly applicable towinter or lined gloves.

Either of the knobs F maybe used indifferently to drawthewrist-openingtogether. When one is used for the pull the otherjams thecord.

Gloves have heretofore been secured at the wrist by a knotted cordjammed in eyelets, through which it is passed, one eyelet being arrangedon each side of the wrist portion.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

.. 1. The herein-described m'eansforclosing the the herein-describedglove, having the wrist portion provided with a gore-piece, a, eyelets OO D D on opposite sides thereof, and the cord E, extended through saideyelets and p'ro- I5 vided with shouldered balls F F, substantially asand for the purpose described.

J OHAN P. MOLLER.

Witnesses:

H. L. WATTENBERG, G. M. PLYMPTON.

